Re: cp -a

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:

> 
> I disagree.
> 
> # cp -ax /dev /tmp
> # cd /tmp/dev
> # ls -l hda log ttyS0 xconsole
> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   0 Aug  4 20:36 hda
> srw-rw-rw-   1 root     root            0 Jan 24 16:43 log
> crw-rw----   1 root     dialout    4,  64 Jan 25 02:54 ttyS0
> prw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Jan 25 02:54 xconsole
> #
> 
> Seems fine to me.

Weird, I did this not two days ago, cp -avRx /* . and it died on some
file, I thought it was /dev or a fifo? 

That begs the question, what was wrong with that machine? :<

Jason


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